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When making your Christmas shopping list this year, don’t forget to add an angel.
Twenty-nine tags hang on the Angel Tree this year at the News-Herald office, located at 154 W. Bryan St., Owenton, representing Owen County children in need.
Each tag contains information about a local child, and clothes and shoe sizes. Angel Tree gifts should be wrapped and returned to the News-Herald office by Wednesday, Dec. 14, with the Angel Tree tag attached to the gift.

A discussion to put Narcan in district schools was met with concern from Owen County School Board members at its Nov. 21 meeting.
Surrounding school districts are discussing keeping the opiate antidote often used to reverse the effects of heroin on school grounds, according to Owen County School Superintendent Rob Stafford.
In her introduction to the topic, Owen County Director of District-Wide Programs Joretta Crowe mentioned that other districts are leaning toward not keeping the lifesaving drug on campus.

The 2016 Owen County Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year and Businessperson of the Year share a common bond: both have aided in providing local children with a safe place to have fun.
The Businessperson of the Year award was given to Gilbert England, owner of Fairway Golf Course in Wheatley. The Business of the Year was awarded to Family Billiards.
Owen County Chamber of Commerce Vice President Carolyn Keith presented this year’s awards.

A year after its first syringe access exchange program (SAEP) discussion with the Owen County Fiscal Court, Three Rivers District Health Department made another plea for the program at the court’s Nov. 22 meeting.
A last-minute deal reached on Senate Bill 192 at the end of the 2015 legislative session in Frankfort included a provision for regional health departments to oversee needle exchanges, but before an exchange can start, they have to receive approval from city and county governments.

Only weeks after a countywide wet-dry election failed to pass, a petition was filed at the Owen County Clerk’s Office for an election to be held to vote on the question, “Are you in favor of the sale of alcoholic beverages in the City of Gratz?”
Owen County Clerk Laurel P. Stivers and Owen County Judge-Executive Casey Ellis verified the petition, filed Nov. 1. Ellis issued an executive order Nov. 29, setting the date of the election for Jan. 10.

First, Mr. Kentucky Basketball and then Principal of the Year; once again Owen County School District has received statewide recognition by ranking number one in energy savings.
A report from the School Energy Managers Program (SEMP) said in the last 7 years, 98 percent of Kentucky school districts have reduced their energy use, totaling a savings of $123 million.

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Kentuckians can join family, friends and volunteers placing wreaths on headstones at Kentucky’s four state veterans cemeteries on the next two Saturdays. The ceremonies to express holiday gratitude for the veterans who have passed will be open to the public, a state news release said.
Thanks to donations from civic and veterans organizations and local businesses and individuals, every headstone and each columbarium section at all four Kentucky state veterans cemeteries will receive a wreath with ceremonies at the following times: